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Old 26th July 2007, 12:17   #1
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is anyone using the quad Q6600 with Gordian Knot with Divx5 codecs? I'd like to know if GKnot/Divx5 combination makes full use of the 4 cores as it does with 2...


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Old 26th July 2007, 12:30   #2
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Can't you check it with task manager?
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Old 26th July 2007, 14:17   #3
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Can't you check it with task manager?
would do that gladly had I had a Q6600 .

I'm looking around for a Q6600 rig, due to the recent price reduction
On some forums I've seen discussion about the real impact of a quad core and it turns out that it all depends on the software (that is why I mentioned GK+Divx that interests me).

Some software simply "ignores" the presence of any further core beyond the second one and so voiding any interest for a quad core.

GK+Divx takes advantage of a 2 core cpu (80-100% on both, sustained) but wondered if it scaled accordingly with a 4core cpu or not (Photoshop seems not to, for example, so a fast dual core is better than a quad with it).
 
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src: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...px?i=3038&p=12

Q6600 2.4Ghz beats higher clocked Dual Core @ 3ghz, so I'd say it makes good use of the extra cores
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Old 26th July 2007, 14:42   #5
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Jmke,

at the moment I'm with Divx5 and loath about going Divx6 for lack of (personal) tests about compatibility with my hardware and quality/space.

The scalability depends much on the encoder used (it seems for example that the Xvid encoder is not very keen on a quad core, MEGUI+H264 seems very happy with 4 cores on the other hand) and hoped for specific Divx5 test...

Thanx for the info anyway!
 
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ah, feature difference 5<>6 is also in multi-threading? didn't know, sorry
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ah, feature difference 5<>6 is also in multi-threading? didn't know, sorry
oh no, I'm not saying that: I just did a few test with Div6 one or two years ago and surely did not test the multithreading aspect: at the time I did not even have a dual core cpu.

It's just that I'm using the Divx5 codecs and for the moment I have no intention of moving to Divx6 , and since the multithreading ability is so depedent ont the implementation of a particular codec, knowing that Divx6 scales up nicely to 4 cores does not necessarily mean that the Divx5 does so as well.
 
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